AE17.MU.TEE.AC.16

Arts Education (2017) Grade(s): 06-12 - Music

AE17.MU.TEE.AC.16
Connecting standards 1 and 2 are to be embedded while teaching the Creating, Performing, andResponding standards. See page 86.

Unpacked Content

Essential Questions

EU: Musicians connect their personal interests, experiences, ideas, and knowledge to creating, performing, and responding.
EQ: How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing, and responding?

Skills Examples

Choral
Performing

Incorporate technology in performing or recording musical performances.

Creating

Create and notate a simple melody using traditional or digital media.

Reading/ Writing

Explain how the creative process is used in similar and different ways in music and other arts.

Responding/ Evaluating

Recognize and describe aesthetic characteristics common to all art forms.
Compare and contrast a musical work with another work of art (ex. dance, drama, visual art) from the same culture on the basis of cultural influences.

Instrumental
Performing

Demonstrate how period, culture, style, and genre impacts the interpretation and performance of a given work.
Independently select music of various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres for study and/or performance. Justify choices for instructors and peers.

Creating

Improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 16 measures in length within a chosen style or reflective of a specific county, culture, or period.
Compose rhythmic and melodic patterns up to 16 measures in length within a chosen style or reflective of a specific county, culture, or period using standard music notation.

Reading/ Writing

Using a variety of available technologies, notate student-composed exercises reflecting various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres.
With guidance, research and present orally or in written form the historical and cultural background of assigned composers and works.

Responding/ Evaluating

Listen to recordings of or attend live performances using period and world music instruments.
Listen to and identify the composer, composition, genre, style, likely birthplace, and cultural influences of various musical work.
With guidance, analyze music representing various time periods, cultures, styles, and genres.

Vocabulary

Choral
Rhythm

Mixed meter
Syncopation

Melody

Full chromatic scale
Modal melodies
Minor scale

Harmony

Chromatic mediant and submediant chords
Counter melodies
Harmonic sequences

Form

Various cultural forms

Expression

Various culture-specific expressive techniques (ululation, overtone singing, etc.)
Creative intent
Stylistic characteristics
Facial expression
Historical context
Cultural context
Artistic delivery

Instrumental
Rhythm

5/4
6/4
3/8
9/8
12/8
Largo
Grave
Vivace
Presto